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1. Are you getting any beeps from the BIOS?
2. Have you tried a different video cable?

The logo is not that unusual. Most screens will produce some sort of display if they are not getting a signal.

That is a very heavy cooling combination. It is quite easy to damage the motherboard when installing them. Particularly after the MoBo has been used for a while............they get brittle.

I don't think that it is a power supply issue. Compatible CPU fans don't use that much different in my experience.

If you cannot do someone any good: don't do them any harm....
As long as you did this to one of these, the least of my little ones............you did it unto Me.
What profiteth a man if he gains the entire World at the expense of his immortal soul?

The interesting bit would be if there are any beeps at all or just one.

One would suggest that it has booted properly whilst none would suggest that it has not.

If you cannot do someone any good: don't do them any harm....
As long as you did this to one of these, the least of my little ones............you did it unto Me.
What profiteth a man if he gains the entire World at the expense of his immortal soul?

Check that the voltage on the back of the PC hasn't been switched... I was in a competition in high school, and the only symptom was that the monitor wouldn't come on... I checked everything, video card, ram, monitor cable, you name it... time ran out... the guy overseeing that station flipped that switch, and presto... it started working again... not sure if this is your problem, but double check... I think it should be set to 115 in the US...

\"Those of us that had been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts, we wanted strong drink.\"

Intel socket 478 and AMD 754, 939 and 940 have a recommended maximum of 450gr. For other sockets it is 300gr.

Even carelessly moving a machine with a cooling unit like that in it can screw it.

If you cannot do someone any good: don't do them any harm....
As long as you did this to one of these, the least of my little ones............you did it unto Me.
What profiteth a man if he gains the entire World at the expense of his immortal soul?

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone, I found a solution that's got the machine working again

I took the advice that was simple first and tried taking the MOBO out and we couldn't get the cable to each so we tried re-seating the board and then slowly adding all the components back in one at a time.

It worked the first time we booted up so then we re-added the NIC and soundcard and so on and the machine is back to normal AND the internal temp has gone down almost 10 degrees with the new cooling system.

So thanks everyone for the help and the ideas it's much appreciated, and me knowing almost nothing about hardware except that it's easy to break I don't like messing with it but thanks again, as you all helped get it going again

Anyway, I'm starting to ramble, exhaustion heh. Went to the Nekromantix show last night and I'm bruised up and sore form the mosh pit